Missions & Complexes

Excellent guide, HE.

For anyone willing to splash out an extra 50-60m on the OP's original fit, switch the hardeners for Shadow Serp equivalents which free up about 50 CPU and add a touch more kinetic resist. You can then drop the co-pro and add a DCU/ODI - or even better, a CPR and switch a Cap Recharger in the mids for an Analyzer. That gets you all four utilities needed to become a true all-in-one exploration platform. You can do this with Drones Rigging 4, or 3 with a cheap KMB implant.

Shadow Serp hardeners are two a penny, and you'll probably make that isk investment back in 2 mag sites.

updated the Ishtar fit to include shadow serp hardeners, easily fits an analyzer now! now the only question is, is the salvager in highs worth it for mag sites? for the big bucks.

proto cloak is more than enough for the Ishtar to warp before decloak completes. and it's essential to use active armour hardeners, not passives

First off, a big thanks to Hungry Eyes for making the OP. For the last few months I’ve been having a great time doing this, and I started because of the OP.

Anyway, I tried to do a “Serpentis Prison Camp” the other night, which is a DED 8/10, in the recommended fit, and got blown up in the fourth room. I believe my hardeners and repper were on hehe.

The first three rooms were no big deal, and I read about the stasis towers in the fourth room, and planned to shoot them first, but when I warped into the fourth room, I quickly had the expected four webs on me, plus a few more from the frigs, plus at least four scrams from the frigs, and I melted before I could kill the scrammers.

Has anyone run this site in the recommended fit?

Yep, thanks to Hungry Eyes, this thread has been great inspiration :)

I've been tweaking the Ishtar to my tastes, and now after ventures into Guristas, Serpentis and Sansha space I dare to post my "lite" version:

[Ishtar, Nullinja]

Heavy Electron Blaster II, Void M
Core Probe Launcher I /OFFLINE
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Void M
Prototype Cloaking Device I
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Void M

10MN Afterburner II
Medium Capacitor Booster II, Cap Booster 800
Omnidirectional Tracking Link I
Omnidirectional Tracking Link I
Cap Recharger II

Damage Control II
Centii A-Type Adaptive Nano Plating
Dark Blood Armor EM Hardener
Dark Blood Armor Thermic Hardener
Domination Medium Armor Repairer

Medium Sentry Damage Augmentor I
Medium Sentry Damage Augmentor I


Hobgoblin II x5
Garde II x1
Hornet EC-300 x5
Curator II x5
Garde II x5



735dps (538 from Gardes) / 257dps tank, against Sanshas this time.

Few notes: I live in wspace, and access null via backdoor. This relieves me from the MWD and ensures access to cap boosters, but cloak is still handy. Can be swapped for a salvager for mag sites. There is some spare CPU, so a normal T2 repper will fit, and would rep more- I'm training for the T2 Omnis and want to keep room for them. Domination repper uses less cap and can handle the sites no problem.


Great ship, all I can say.

Pretty much this. I've been flying the Ishtar in Caldari Low Sec, and I gotta say...the DPS is overwhelming!
Even before the stasis web towers get ahold of you, the rats just slowly bleed through your tank.

Maybe I'm targeting the wrong rats first. I try to go for the BS's first, but in hindsight, I think the cruisers probably get better applied to a small sig like the Ishtar. The Wardens just don't get enough DPS out of the way before your tank breaks.

So I'm asking for a little input from people who know better. When you're in a high dps situation, what do you pop first? The frigs? The cruisers? The battlecruisers? Battleships? Sentry Towers/Missile Towers? Stasis Web towers first right?

On a side note, first 5/10 I ran (with plenty of warp outs and too many lost Warden IIs to be proud of) dropped a Gila BPC and B-Type Deflection Amplifier! So this ship is payed for.

1. bump the awesome thread

2. please please what do this abbreviations mean ?

3. can i become a ninja with vexor navy issue ?

5. thx

you rock!

But Ishkur is far superior - you can keep working on the cans while the lovely drones zoom around and erase red crosses from your overview on their own.

I thought i would add a few things to the discussion.

First up this is a one of the best threads ive seen so far on these forums +1 to the OP

next up. For a long time people have been looking for a Deep incursion explorer ship that can stay for extended periods of time.


What you need is DPS that does not run out which inhibits anything that is not drone or laser based. Although tech 2/faction ammo runs out you can carry an awful lot of it and it can last you for weeks/months before you need anymore. I bought 10 of each imperial large and was still using it 3 months later. Lastly without a dedicated bonused probing ship. it can be hard to scan down anything substantial even with a set of sisters.

Ships

For me it has to be either a T3 or a faction ship as these normally have the extra highslots you need for a cloak and a probe launcher. Although there are others you can use :)

The tengu is the best ship for not dying when travelling but it has two weaknesses

1. It requires missiles which will be used up very quicly
2. Nullsec mods gimp the DPS into the ground


The Pilgrim

This ship is outstanding and ive taken it all over lowsec and nullsec. The only real problem is the DPS. It takes a long time to get through a wall of elite cruisers and Battleships due to the low DPS but you can kill overseers as they rep less the further you get away from them. Once you are over 65k you can kill them with 5 Hammers. ALWAYS FIT A SINGLE GUN TO GET AGRO or you have to fly in close to them and that can be death.


The Ishtar

This is a great ship and well worth it for this role. you only use your gun ammo for special occasions and then you dont run out.



Legion

A nullsec Explorer Legion is just broken you have terrible dps and you have no lows. this one really needs addressing.



Phantasm

This ship is also viable in nullsec as it has the extra two slots plus it does 575 DPS with everything maxed and imperial navy multis. More likely will be about 470 with scorch. The massive down side is that you have no range. Im still playing with ETF and then it will be onto sisi to get some results.


Nightmare


If you are truly Brave and have isk to spare then a Nightmare is the way to go. It can glide through just about anything pve in nullsec but you would have to fly like a Boss to avoid losing it